Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon

Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine.[2]

Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Part of Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine
Location of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Coordinates: 49°29′24″N 0°34′19″E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementLe Havre
CantonNotre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
CommunePort-Jérôme-sur-Seine
Area
1
18.74 km2 (7.24 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
8,634
 • Density460/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
76330
Elevation0–138 m (0–453 ft)
(avg. 35 m or 115 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A small town with a huge industrial area (Port-Jérome) to the southwest with farming and woodland to the north and east, in the Pays de Caux, situated by the banks of the river Seine, some 20 miles (32 km) east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D81, D373 and D110 roads.

History
  • The parishes of Saint-Georges-de-Gravenchon and Notre Dame were part of the royal domain of Lillebonne. The Counts of Évreux built the medieval castle of Fontaine-Saint-Denis. The two parishes were joined as one commune in 1823 under the name of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon.
  • Napoleon III opened the new industrial area of Port-Jérôme. A commemorative stone recalls his visit on May 28, 1861. Until then, the commune was an agricultural town.
  • In 1930, two oil refineries with two separate housing districts were established. "Standard" (for Esso employees) and "Vacuum" (for Mobil Oil's workers).
  • During World War II, the refineries were partly destroyed (1940) but rebuilt after 1945. Notre Dame de Gravenchon was occupied by the Germans on 12 June 1940 and liberated on 31 August 1944 jointly by the British and Belgian armies (Brigade Piron).[3]

Heraldry
Arms of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
 The arms of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon are blazoned :
Per fess 1: per pale A: gules, a demi-lion issuant from the per pale line and B: Azure, the outline of a drakkar on waves argent; and 2: Vert, 2 stalks of wheat in saltire argent and in chief 3 chemical flasks outlined, and half full argent, middle one largest; all the lines of division fimbriated.

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
19625,488—    
19686,273+2.25%
19758,335+4.14%
19828,963+1.04%
19908,901−0.09%
19998,618−0.36%
Source: EHESS[4]

Places of interest
  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
  • The church of St. Georges, dating from the twentieth century.
  • A seventeenth century public washhouse.
  • Vestiges of the medieval castle and chapel at La Fontaine-Saint-Denis.

Twinning

Notre Dame de Gravenchon is twinned with Street, a village in Somerset, a county in the south west of England and Isny im Allgäu a city in the South of Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany and also Rubano in Northern Italy.

See also

References
  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 30 November 2015 (in French)
  3. armées.com. "Armées.com - Escape Report Sgt Nekervis". Xn--armes-dsa.com. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  4. Données Cassini, EHESS


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